Comparison of Western Digital My Cloud and ZyXEL NAS542

The side-by-side comparison of the devices’ specifications. The comparison table below makes it easier to choose the most fitting NAS.

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Launch	2013	2016
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	170.6 x 139.9 x 49 mm	190 x 225 x 160 mm
Weight	1 kg	2 kg
Disks
Disk bays	1 x 3.5" SATA II	4 x 3.5" SATA II
RAID	no	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID6
SSD support	no	no
Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP NFS	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP ISCSI NFS WEBDAV
P2P support	no	BitTorrent
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	DLNA Squeezebox UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	Dropbox	Dropbox Google Drive
Connectivity
USB ports	1 x USB 3.0	3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Mindspeed Comcerto 2000 M86261G-12 dual-core @ 650 MHz	Freescale ARMv7 Cortex-A9 dual-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	256 MB	1 GB DDR3
Flash	512 MB	256 MB
Operating system	WD My Cloud OS	ZyXEL
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 1.5 A	19 V / 4.74 A
Consuption		36.5 W / 14.8 W
Fans	fanless	1 x 120 mm
Noise level
Features
Specials		Failover and link aggregation SD card reader
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	admin	1234

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